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Database Description:
Lexis Nexis provides full text news, business, legal, medical, reference and biographical information.
Wildcard / Truncation:
LexisNexis Academic uses the exclamation point (!) for truncation, or to replace an unlimited number of letters following a word root. Use an asterisk (*) for wildcard searching, or to replace a letter or letters in a word. You can use more than one asterisk in a word, but it cannot be the first letter.
Plurals and Singulars:
LexisNexis services automatically search singular, regular plural, and plural possessive endings for search words. For example, a search on the term company finds: company, companies, company's, and companies'. But, if you use a noun with an irregular plural ending, you do not automatically get the plural and plural possessive. Use the OR Boolean operator to search for both singular and plural forms of a word. For example: child or children ; knife or knives; ox or oxen.
Search Tips:
Boolean Operators: AND, OR, AND NOT
AND: Finds records that contain both words, although not necessarily in the same sentence or in the given order. AND ties the two concepts together and provides a more narrow search than just a single
word alone.
OR: Finds records that contain either word or both words. Use OR for synonymous or related terms; this broadens the search.
AND NOT: Finds records that contain the first word and that do not contain the second word.
Proximity Operators:
You can use proximity operators to search for two or more words that occur within a specified proximity (either numbers of words or within the same sentence, paragraph, etc.)
W/n: Links search words and phrases within a certain number of words. The letter n stands for a number from 1 to 255 and does not specify a word order. Example: doctor w/5 malpractice -- finds doctor within five or fewer words of malpractice, regardless of which word appears first.
PRE/n: Requires both words to appear in the document with the first word preceding the second word by n words. Use this connector when a different word order would change the meaning.
Example: southwest pre/2 air or airline -- finds Southwest Air or Southwest Airlines.
W/sent: Looks for documents with search words in the same sentence. Example: doctor w/sent malpractice -- finds doctor in the same sentence as malpractice.
W/para: Looks for documents with search words in the same paragraph. Example: doctor w/para malpractice -- finds doctor in the same paragraph as malpractice.
Field Searching:
The default (recommended) fields searched include the headline, lead paragraph, and terms. You can change the default and search the headline only, full text, captions, or author fields.
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Database Description:
Lexis Nexis provides full text news, business, legal, medical, reference and biographical information.Wildcard / Truncation:
LexisNexis Academic uses the exclamation point (!) for truncation, or to replace an unlimited number of letters following a word root. Use an asterisk (*) for wildcard searching, or to replace a letter or letters in a word. You can use more than one asterisk in a word, but it cannot be the first letter.Plurals and Singulars:
LexisNexis services automatically search singular, regular plural, and plural possessive endings for search words. For example, a search on the term company finds: company, companies, company's, and companies'. But, if you use a noun with an irregular plural ending, you do not automatically get the plural and plural possessive. Use the OR Boolean operator to search for both singular and plural forms of a word. For example: child or children ; knife or knives; ox or oxen.Search Tips:
Boolean Operators:
AND, OR, AND NOT
AND: Finds records that contain both words, although not necessarily in the same sentence or in the given order. AND ties the two concepts together and provides a more narrow search than just a single
word alone.
OR: Finds records that contain either word or both words. Use OR for synonymous or related terms; this broadens the search.
AND NOT: Finds records that contain the first word and that do not contain the second word.
Proximity Operators:
You can use proximity operators to search for two or more words that occur within a specified proximity (either numbers of words or within the same sentence, paragraph, etc.)W/n: Links search words and phrases within a certain number of words. The letter n stands for a number from 1 to 255 and does not specify a word order. Example: doctor w/5 malpractice -- finds doctor within five or fewer words of malpractice, regardless of which word appears first.
PRE/n: Requires both words to appear in the document with the first word preceding the second word by n words. Use this connector when a different word order would change the meaning.
Example: southwest pre/2 air or airline -- finds Southwest Air or Southwest Airlines.
W/sent: Looks for documents with search words in the same sentence. Example: doctor w/sent malpractice -- finds doctor in the same sentence as malpractice.
W/para: Looks for documents with search words in the same paragraph. Example: doctor w/para malpractice -- finds doctor in the same paragraph as malpractice.
Field Searching:
The default (recommended) fields searched include the headline, lead paragraph, and terms.You can change the default and search the headline only, full text, captions, or author fields.
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